In the past week, I've seen stories of AI: - being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students - calling innocent people sex offenders - shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars - emitting more CO2 than New York City What the fuck are we even doing?

Fixing poverty is cheap.

If incomes aren't a proxy for merit, a lot of other assumptions break down. Preserving those assumptions by treating the poor as deficient or abject is worth the price of less effective solutions

On the 15th of December this year, Aotearoa New Zealand passed the 2.5 year mark for Self-ID. As we always said, there have been zero issues arising from this. Not a single incident recorded formally or informally, not a whisper of a problem. The anti-trans activists lied to everyone.

“Why capitalism?” Because it’s a system that flourishes on greed, hostility, unnecessary competition, and failure. Four things that humanity has a rare talent for cultivating. Yes, failure. Most new companies go bust in their first few years. No other system would accept wastage like that.

Love this

3rd one is the best one.

I watched it. It’s bad (good reporting, bad conditions). JFC the US is gross the world should cut them tf off.

Don't forget transcripts for video and audio. These will help blind users and low-vision users, deaf and hard-of-hearing users, people with ADHD, and people with audio-processing disorders. Transcripts also benefit search engines, people in quiet spaces, and people in a hurry.

From the 1966 Sunset Magazine “Sunset Cook Book of Breads”

This is not a feel-good story. Any country that need this or food banks in general should hide in shame.

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

Our five eyes partner.

Same goal as AI: control information sources, pollute them so no one knows what's real, then you can't have democracy anymore. On the contrary, a majority of voters will choose a strongman offering them a lifeline of fake cognitive security amidst the fog of the unreal created by media & AI czars.

It is hilarious that the cecot 60 minutes thing got aired in canada after being killed in the us lololol that dork is so bad at her job.

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

Reminder that you don’t have to traumatize yourself, you’re not obligated to do that as long as you’re staying informed and engaged. Many people will watch this and write about it and tell you the important things to know and it’s ok to protect your heart as much as you can

Unless the regime can get this built by the election, its a non-starter - the next govt will simply cancel it. Which ought to deter any businesses involved as well.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

Oh no if only someone warned the Australian govt that a ban would push teens into less moderated spaces and wouldn't solve online harm at all #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

I could have done a better job in ms paint lololol

I see weiss-washing is the new Streisand Effect.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Yeah... As a Māori ex Labour voter I don't believe for a second he's gonna be good for Māori, just look at his behaviour over the years to TPM and his treatment of Wāhine Māori in Greens, particularly Tamatha Paul but also Maramara around her straight white men statement. #nzpol

Same vibes as the Tamaki Makaurau lockdown KFC.

NZ left behind again.

The problem predating LLMs is that the processes that are supposed to do something about rigour and integrity issues have been taken over by the bad guys, so exposure alone doesn't do much. Wakefield is an example for the wrong reasons - they defended him for a decade! This stuff is everywhere:

Someone please tell me how far lux bent over and how stuffed we are.

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These arseholes sure have a lot of money for lawyers and court time 👀

Oriini Kaipara has taken to social media to speak out on the stand-off involving a group linked to Destiny Church and the Sikh community gathering in Manurewa at the weekend.

For anyone in Aotearoa looking for a worthwhile cause to make a Christmas donation to, please consider the Aunties Christmas appeal. Any contribution is gratefully received. #kikorangi #nzpol givealittle.co.nz/cause/the-au...

I appreciate this graphic issued by the NZ Central Sikh Association in response to the Destiny racists for its inspiring message of anti-discrimination, mutual aid and unity across ethnic & faith communities, and also its subtle reminder that Sikhs are known badasses so why would you fuck with them.

Extra boost!!! Anyone able to provide a bit of Christmas and holiday cheer and help the fabulous Beckie get the dental care she needs?? 🎄🎁🌟💕

Especially relevant in NZ, where funding for the Archives NZ digitisation programme of official records was axed in 2024.

"It’s crazy how the Bondi shooters got radicalized by the anti-genocide protests from 2023 to 2025 and then invented a time machine and went back to 2019 to join ISIS." Caitlin J.

For those in Ōtautahi Christchurch who can make it, there's a vigil at the transitional Cathedral tonight at 8pm

Carb-cheese-tomato is one of my fav foods.

Oh right. The box. The box for Pandora. The box chosen specially to house Pandora. Pandora’s Box.

Oh no! You cut up the little wooden ball prize!

Yule hole doesn’t sound as wholesome as its actual definition.

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

As AI training data has been largely limited to digital materials, this piece also reinforces the notion that claims about large language models encompassing anything like the entirety of human knowledge are vastly overblown

yes, I would love Indigenous villains. I don't trust white people to fucking write them. I think ya'll have controlled the narrative for long enough, actually

This is very ‘I used a forklift at the gym to lift the weights’.

Give it a rest. We're long past the idea that's some entirely cynical ploy on their end. What you call "the culture war" now is what they've always believed in, and they never stop believing it when they get almost everything they want.

Israel admitted it bombed a wedding in Gaza and killed 7 but nobody in the UK or Australia or anywhere else will clamor to ban the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself"— again I have to wonder why.

I am highlighting a bunch of examples of people genuinely trying to use LLMs and genuinely not finding them very useful to illustrate that this really isn’t just a “rabid AI haters who’ve never actually tried it” conversation